Extension for Safari to replace Google+ Profiles in Google search results with the most relevant social profiles

"I think exploration and adventure are essential to the happiness of every person, but I can't presume to present this as anything but my own opinion. Most people are pre-naturally more happy than I am, out the gate."

Give me beautiful landscape photography, cropped in a circle, any day. A nice series by Marco Suarez.

HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass's base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.

After more than three years in iterative development, you get the best of the best practices baked in: cross-browser normalization, performance optimizations, even optional features like cross-domain Ajax and Flash. A starter apache .htaccess config file hooks you the eff up with caching rules and preps your site to serve HTML5 video, use @font-face, and get your gzip zipple on.

Boilerplate is not a framework, nor does it prescribe any philosophy of development, it's just got some tricks to get your project off the ground quickly and right-footed.

HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team.
Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms.
Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

EASILY CREATE AND SHARE MAP-BASED STORIES…
and embed them into your website for free

Journalists, teachers, bloggers and storytellers (to name a few) use Map Tales to chronicle news events, scrapbook holidays, describe walks, plan campaigns, illustrate literature, recount journeys, and bring historical events to life

Enter the url to your site - local or online: both work - and use the controls to adjust the width and height of your viewport to find exact breakpoint widths in pixels. Then use that information in your media queries to create a responsive design.

De website is gelanceerd en samen met je collega’s ben je een groot feest aan het vieren. Vele uren zijn er geïnvesteerd in de schitterend ogende en rijke website/webshop. Je leunt achterover en geniet van de bezoekers en de reviews. Dat moet je zeker doen, maar niet te lang! Er is nog zoveel werk te doen! In dit artikel 7 belangrijke redenen om vooral te blijven doorontwikkelen.

Tracking your time—for your clients, for yourself—doesn't have to be a dreaded task. Dispense with the preparation, avoidance, and gnashing of teeth. Freckle eliminates all the nonsense between you and your work.
Care for your most precious asset

But is just tracking your time enough? Freckle helps you see the big picture: which days have you been working? How much, and on what? Is all that time billable time? What are your teammates and employees doing?

Are you looking for a fabulous free stock image? Then look no further! ! RGBStock has a huge number of high quality stock photos and dazzling free graphics for illustrations, wallpapers and backgrounds. Need a free picture for your commercial website? Want an image for your blog? Looking for ideas? Check out the RGBStock galleries packed with high quality stock photos and find what you are searching for!

Wie een foto in licentie neemt, zal meestal in de licentievoorwaarden een beding aantreffen dat naamsvermelding eist. Soms is dat onderhandelbaar (geen naamsvermelding in ruil voor hogere tarieven) maar niet per se. Wie bijvoorbeeld Creative Commons-werk wil gebruiken (zoals bij Flickr) zal te allen tijde de naam van de fotograaf bij het werk moeten zetten. En als een foto bij wijze van beeldcitaat wordt gebruikt, is naamsvermelding ook verplicht. Maar wat is nu een goede manier om dit te doen?

Zelf, met de hand, een website maken is tegenwoordig zo lastig nog niet. Echter, een grote maatwerk website is heel andere koek. In het begin lijkt het wel simpel maar iedere beslissing heeft invloed op je volgende beslissing en één verkeerde beslissing kan heel snel tot frustratie leiden. Mocht je toevallig het (on)geluk hebben om meerdere grote websites te maken en te onderhouden, dan ben je, als je niet uitkijkt, al heel snel de sigaar.

Waarom? Niets blijft hetzelfde en het maken van een website is een oefening in constante verandering.

HTML wil je zo hebben dat je het achteraf niet hoeft aan te passen voor CSS of JavaScript. Dergelijke aanpassingen zijn duur, omdat je met nog meer onderhoud wordt opgezadeld, wat uiteindelijk ook de duurzaamheid van je product aantast. Erger nog, het is meestal onnodig en makkelijker te voorkomen dan je denkt.

De truc is om binnen de drie front-end gebieden (HTML, CSS en JavaScript) generiek te zijn waar deze gebieden elkaar raken en specifiek te zijn binnen een enkel gebied.

Daniel Tammet‘s TED talk A Different Way of Knowing is a fascinating look at how humans perceive language and meaning.

Perceptions are at the heart of how we acquire knowledge. Esthetic judgements rather than abstract reasoning guide and shape the process by which we all come to know what we know.

I wanted a handy way to convert a feed url to the redirected url. For example, Reeder puts this url on the clipboard:

“http://feeds.harvardbusiness.org/~r/harvardbusiness/~3/_folqII9-_8/beware-of-the-short-term-opera.html”

But when I make a post, I want this url:

“http://blogs.hbr.org/hbsfaculty/2011/12/beware-of-the-short-term-opera.html”

There are a number of reasonable ways to do this, but I like Python so that’s what I went with.

On the iPad and iPhone, using CSS transformations in Mobile Safari often results in elements with ugly jagged or stair stepped edges.

In most cases it’s easy to get nice anti-aliased edges by wrapping whatever you want to transform in an additional element that adds a few pixels padding:

Since a buildup of humanmade carbon dioxide is causing the planet to warm, why not just suck this greenhouse gas straight out of the atmosphere? That's one strategy scientists have proposed to combat climate change. But a new analysis suggests that the approach may be neither economical nor practical.

Hoezo, het waterschap een saaie en volgens Haagse kringen overbodige bestuurslaag? Ook daar hebben ze dromen en ambities! Veertien van de 25 Nederlandse waterschappen willen vanaf 2015 rendabele energie- en grondstoffenfabrieken zijn. In deze nieuwe rol van energie- en grondstoffenproducent willen zij een bijdrage leveren aan de omslag van een op olie draaiende economie naar een duurzame economie die draait op onder andere biogas.

“Op dit moment”, zo vertelt ir. Ferdinand Kiestra, innovator van het waterschap Aa en Maas, “produceren we hier in Den Bosch twee miljoen kg biogas. Dat is opgewerkt zo’n 1,5 miljoen kg biogas van een kwaliteit die gelijk is aan die van aardgas. Onze rioolwaterzuiveringsinstallatie draait voor 70% op die energie, de resterende 30% kopen we op de reguliere energiebeurs in. Wij leveren ook al een kleine hoeveelheid van deze energie onder de label ‘Waterschapsenergie’ aan consumenten via Greenchoice.”

Inwoners van grote steden moeten ongeacht hun woonvorm net zo veel geld terugkrijgen van hun energieleverancier als ze zelf duurzaam stroom opwekken. Nu zit daar nog verschil in tussen bewoners verenigd in kleine verenigingen van eigenaren (vve) ten opzichte van grotere vve's en particulieren. De vier grote steden Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Den Haag en Utrecht willen daar verandering in, schrijven ze in een brief aan de commissie Innovatie van de Tweede Kamer.

If you deal with customers and need to collect information about their environment, you need to enter "man sysdiagnose" into a Terminal.

Before the interview, I read over the candidates resume and jot down an interview plan on a scrap of paper. That’s just a list of questions that I want to ask. Here’s a typical plan for interviewing a programmer:

Introduction
Question about recent project candidate worked on
Easy Programming Question
Pointer/Recursion Question
Are you satisfied?
Do you have any questions?

I am very, very careful to avoid anything that might give me some preconceived notions about the candidate. If you think that someone is smart before they even walk into the room, just because they have a Ph.D. from MIT, then nothing they can say in one hour is going to overcome that initial prejudice. If you think they are a bozo because they went to community college, nothing they can say will overcome that initial impression. An interview is like a very, very delicate scale—it’s very hard to judge someone based on a one hour interview and it may seem like a very close call. But if you know a little bit about the candidate beforehand, it’s like a big weight on one side of the scale, and the interview is useless. Once, right before an interview, a recruiter came into my office. “You’re going to love this guy,” she said. Boy did this make me mad. What I should have said was, “Well, if you’re so sure I’m going to love him, why don’t you just hire him instead of wasting my time going through this interview.” But I was young and naïve, so I interviewed him. When he said not-so-smart things, I thought to myself, “gee, must be the exception that proves the rule.” I looked at everything he said through rose-colored glasses. I wound up saying Hire even though he was a crappy candidate. You know what? Everybody else who interviewed him said No Hire. So: don’t listen to recruiters; don’t ask around about the person before you interview them; and never, ever talk to the other interviewers about the candidate until you’ve both made your decisions independently. That’s the scientific method.

SwiftRiver is a platform that helps people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time.

Filter & Verify Real-Time Data
In practice, SwiftRiver enables the filtering and verification of real-time data from channels like Twitter, SMS, Email and RSS feeds.

Pelican is a simple weblog generator, writen in python.

Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) and directly in restructured text, or markdown.
A simple cli-tool to (re)generate the weblog.
Easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks
Completely static output, so easy to host anywhere !

A JavaScript library for image- and vector-tiled maps using SVG.

This morning, I was struck by this nice write-up about how the Hungarian railway accurately geo-located and inventoried their assets:

The work was done entirely by MAV employees which made it much less expensive than if external contractors would have had to have been used. Overall it is estimated that as a result of using internal resources and a GPS/GLONASS-based approach the project was 16 times more efficient than a traditional survey. And the project generated a lot of pride among MAV employees who carried out the work because it was such a remarkable achievement from a data collection, management and quality perspective.

Here's is an incredibly stupid thing for a consultant to say, but nonetheless: if you can do it in house, why wouldn't you? Even if it's a bit of a stretch, your in house resources:

have a predictable cost structure
already understand your core business
have a feel for the historical reasoning behind business processes

New IT infrastructure is strategic almost by definition. Why would you outsource your most important strategic initiatives? If you're anticipating failure, perhaps it's a good idea. But if you succeed, you've just invested in building intellectual capital in a population of people outside your organization. And you've lowered the engagement of your core staff in the future of the organization.

Familiarity breeds contempt, and it's all too common that management is most contemptuous of the people they are most familiar with: their own staff. Hence the lure of the shiny consultant (love me! I'm shiny!).

Now a new analysis from the same group suggests that investment in clean energy has already topped investments in coal, natural gas and other fossil fuel infrastructure

Het Provinciaal GeoRegister (PGR) is een digitaal register, waarin provincies hun provinciale geo-informatie op een duidelijke en gestructureerde wijze vindbaar maken.

Gebruikers kunnen geo-informatie zoeken en de gevonden informatie gebruiken in de vorm van services of deze downloaden

Het PGR is beschikbaar en toegankelijk voor iedereen, maar richt zich vooral op de professionele gebruiker.

Cloak is a service for your Mac, iPhone, and iPad that keeps you safe from prying eyes on public wi-fi.

Het aandeel hernieuwbare energie in het totale energieverbruik daalde van 4,2 procent in 2009 naar 3,8 procent in 2010 (nader voorlopig cijfer). Dit komt enerzijds doordat het totale verbruik van energie is gestegen en anderzijds door een afname van het verbruik van biobrandstoffen voor het wegverkeer.

So we took it upon ourselves to redesign the country selector.

Using principles of progressive enhancement we turn a standard drop-down into an advanced auto-complete field. This means the drop-down remains accessible, while providing a much better experience in modern browsers – handling typos, multiple spelling sequences, synonyms and prioritization.

Src Img is a bookmarklet that interfaces with Google™ Image Search to help you find the creators of images you see on blogs that are too lame cool for attribution.
How do I use it?

Drag the following link to the bookmarks bar in your browser.
?¿ src-img

Then click it when you are on a page with images you want to track down.

Big touchscreens demand big gestures. The iPad in particular begs for swipes and multitouch combos that let you slap at the whole screen to control apps instead of tapping delicately at tiny buttons.

iPad apps like Facebook and Twitter, for example, demonstrate that it's much easier to move through your history by nudging the canvas back and forth than it is to hit Safari's tiny Back button. Small touchscreen buttons require extra thought and motor control—brain and strain—compared to coarse gestures that let you fling screens aside.

With iOS 5, the iPad finally gets exactly those kinds of coarse gestures to move between apps. Yay, right? Swipe left or right with four or five fingers to switch among recent apps, or pinch with four or five fingers to close an app and zip out to the home screen. No need to find the iPad's elusive Home button; you can just paw at the whole screen to navigate apps.

I'm a huge fan of the spirit of these gestures, but I'm not crazy about the excution. I wish Apple had followed the interaction already adopted by other platforms, including BlackBerry Playbook, Nokia N9, and the next version of Microsoft Windows. All of these platforms use edge gestures, a technique that is at once more internally consistent and more deferential to individual apps.

(Source: http://twitter.com/twotribes/status/131088256224858112)

Pas a Pas is an interactive educational tool for schools that enables children to learn and experiment with different sets of elements using animation. It aims to use the physicality and the animated outcome of stop motion animation to bridge the gap between abstract concepts from maths, physics or arts (usually represented by graphs, equations or words) and reality.

The system consist of three aspects: a platform to record and display animations, sets of elements for animating and a community to share the content generated.

The platform has a display, a camera and an interface with three main modes:

- Assistant: the display shows a guide for the children to place the elements at the right position in each frame. This way it introduces the students to the set of elements and enables them to explore concepts that are being taught in the conventional curriculum. It also intends to give a progressive learning of stop motion techniques in order to create better and more realistic animations.
- Director: children can create their own animated movies using the pieces provided or other objects.
- Collection: children can browse through movies that have been recorded on the same platform, or on remote platforms located in other schools.

Different sets of elements are designed to teach specific content for a certain age group, such as Geometry for 4 to 6 year olds. Each set comes with a cartridge that contains the animation guides. Aside from the sets that the system offers, the collection is scalable as teachers can easily create new animation exercises and share them with the community.

The community serves to provide a space for exchanging knowledge and material generated using the system and discuss new methods of teaching using stop motion animation.

Few today realize that electric cabs dominated Manhattan's streets in the 1890s; that Boise, Idaho, had a geothermal heating system in 1910; or that the first megawatt turbine in the world was built in 1941 by the son of publishing magnate G. P. Putnam--a feat that would not be duplicated for another forty years. Likewise, while many remember the oil embargo of the 1970s, few are aware that it led to a corresponding explosion in green-technology research that was only derailed when energy prices later dropped.

In other words: We've been here before. Although we may have failed, America has had the chance to put our world on a more sustainable path. Americans have, in fact, been inventing green for more than a century.

Half compendium of lost opportunities, half hopeful look toward the future, Powering the Dream tells the stories of the brilliant, often irascible inventors who foresaw our current problems, tried to invent cheap and energy renewable solutions, and drew the blueprint for a green future.

There are many times I want to leverage jQuery’s strengths to create a custom Google Maps mashup. In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to get started using jQuery inside the Google Maps environment. I will assume nothing, and explain each piece in detail.

Shoebox, the iPhone App, makes it easy to scan old paper photos and share them with family and friends. It helps you bring albums, scrapbooks, and photo-filled “shoeboxes” out of the closet and into an online, shareable space where they can be organized and shared with family and friends. Shoebox’s edge detection and perspective correction make sure that the paper photographs you scan turn out beautifully. After scanning, you can quickly crop, straighten, rotate your photo, as well as record the stories behind the photographs by adding captions, dates, and tags. The quality of camera phones has increased so much that your handy iPhone is now as good as the clunky piece of hardware you have next to your computer, and with none of the wires or drivers. The new iPhone 4S offers a 8 megapixel camera that takes images at 2448×3264 resolution. Using Shoebox to scan a typical 4″x6″ photo produces a DPI of 550 – the same high quality recommended by scanning experts like ScanCafe.

A couple years ago, a friend (can't remember who, perhaps Lane Becker? Anil Dash?) said the next big wave in business was "becoming the Zappos of anything." What they meant was even though there may be a crowded market for whatever is sold online, the market is ripe for someone to come in and provide the absolute best experience possible backed by great customer service.

Ask somebody a difficult question, and chances are they will either look up at the sky or close their eyes.  What is going on there? 

Below is a list of CSS snippets that will help you minimize headaches, frustration and save your time while writing css, and I hope you will find it useful. Whether you are a experienced web developer, or just getting started with css, they are all worth checking out.

Over the past 25 years, Pixar s team of artists, writers, and directors have shaped the world of contemporary animation with their feature films and shorts. From classics such as Toy Story and A Bug s Life to recent masterpieces such as Up, Toy Story 3, and Cars 2, this comprehensive collection offers a behind-the-scenes tour of every Pixar film to date. Featuring a foreword by Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter, the complete color scripts for every film published in full for the first time as well as stunning visual development art, The Art of Pixar is a treasure trove of rare artwork and an essential addition to the library of animation fans and Pixar enthusiasts.